Biden signs the first documents as president

Washington – Democrat Joe Biden signed this Wednesday in an act at the Capitol of the first documents as president, in an act that took place shortly after he was sworn in with the country president.

In a ceremony in the President’s Hall at the Capitol, Biden stamped his rubric on the Proclamation of the Day of Investiture, Appointments to the Cabinet, and Nominations for Sub-Cabinet Positions.

Later, under the Capitol’s dome, which just two weeks ago was a space occupied by hundreds of radical supporters of former President Donald Trump, Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, received gifts from leaders. of Congress, as photographs of his investiture this Wednesday and the flags that waved at the Congress headquarters.

Outgoing Republican majority leader in the upper house, Mitch McConnell, who presented them with a country flag, recalled the past of Biden and Harris in this chamber and recalled that both “are son and daughter of the Senate “.

For her part, the President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who also gave them a flag, joked that, if the traditional lunch had been held in Congress in honor of the new president, it would have served wine from the state it represents, California, where Harris is also from.

This year this lunch has been avoided due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Republican leader in the lower house, Kevin McCarthy, said he had heard Biden’s inauguration speech and his words about the need to unify the country, adding that he was looking forward to “moving forward together from ‘here,’ at the time he gave them a photograph of the investiture ceremony.

After the ceremony inside the Capitol, Biden reviewed the troops from the East entrance, accompanied by his wife, Jill, and Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, before conducting. to the Arlington Cemetery.

The magazine on troops is a tradition that reflects the peaceful transfer of power to the new president and commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces

All branches of the Armed Forces were represented in this military parade.